The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
Site adaptation by Sen, Lix, and Tempest. <3
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Cafas, not Calley)
Well their back and forth definitely was getting bitchy. Someone was not going to leave that argument happy by most odds. Cafas was almost certainly going to be the afore mentioned unhappy person. It would not stop him fighting back. He always had been a fighter, why stop on account of inevitability? He glared momentarily at his baby blue wall; it just made him more hurt.
Still, if he wasn't going to tell Calley he was out of line, who would. "To start off, if I just wanted to have sex with you, I would have taken you up on your offer the first time, instead of getting myself ripped to shreds. I also imagine a person in your position had a very easy time of ruining my life, or at least the pieces you have access to. Alex though, you're pretty much right, I went with someone who looks exactly nothing like you." He spat the final comment with the spite of Hades himself. Or a really mad llama.
Cafas was more sad for Calley with a view of people like he had than mad at him for trying to tell him how to live, but he couldn't get all sorry now, it'd have absolutely no sincerity to it given the circumstances. "You know what mate, that outlook on life is just sad, but heres a newsflash for you, something that maybe if you opened your eye's you'd see, that apart from you, no-one else in my life has made it their mission to hurt me." Pointed gesturing assisted his point on the 'you', though he had a feeling Calley was just trying to push him to the edge, and then some. "Oh, and for the record, I build my life around myself, my open border policy may have fooled you into thinking otherwise, but the only people I've ever valued above myself are you and Sophie. The worst part of it is, I've tried hating you both at one stage or another, and failed. I literally CAN'T dislike you."
Cafas got up from the bed properly, moved to the window, and fully opened it. He swung his legs out and sat on the windowsill, staring at the ground below, wondering exactly how much it would hurt if he slipped. Or was pushed, as was the more likely scenario. It wouldn't feel good, that was for sure. "I'm going to make this really simple for you. Explain why you're acting jealous, and no I'm not buying your ' I'm trying to help you see how vulnerable you are ' act, or, if you really wanna prove how much of an idiot I am, push me. At this height you're looking at a broken bone minimum for those without superhuman damage resistance or agility, and I’m not gonna fight you if you do."
Posted by Cheshire on Sept 2, 2011 20:21:22 GMT -6
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Calley
“So you literally can’t dislike me, huh,” Calley said, with all due smirking. Seriously. Literally couldn’t? Not under any circumstances? He just couldn’t believe that. So much of what Cafas said, he just couldn’t believe.
And now here was the original pink-haired young gentleman, perched on a windowsill, literally asking to be pushed. Oh how tempting it was. Calley stood up, and stalked over.
“You don’t get it, do you, Cafas? You think I’ve got to choose? Push you, or confess my undying love? What, you think that’s why I’m acting ‘jealous’?” He made this not just sarcastic, but extra sarcastic. Just in case Cafas had any strange ideas.
“Here’s the thing: I’m not playing your game. I’m not getting manipulated by anyone, ever again. So get off the windowsi—”
Calley meant to grab his shoulder. Drag him back in.
It was not his fault that Cafas lost his balance. Turns out Calley’s grip hadn’t been all that good.
“Aw shi—“
THUD.
It was not his fault that the DocProf was on vacation, either.